HIST 126B: The American West Since 1850

Doe, Main Stacks, Moffitt Library Floorplans

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:10:12 -0700

Looking for a location or call number in Doe, Main Stacks or Moffitt? Try the floorplans, or ask for assistance!

Off-campus Access to Library Resources

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:51:25 -0700

Before you can access Library resources from off campus make sure you have configured your computer with proxy server settings.

After you make a one-time change in your web browser settings, the proxy server will ask you to log in with a CalNet ID or Library PIN when you click on the link to a licensed resource.

Printing and Scanning in the Libraries

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:33:47 -0700

All libraries on campus are equipped with "bookscan stations," which allow you to scan documents and save them to a USB drive, or to scan documents and then send them to a printer.

In order to scan documents, you must have the following:

A Cal 1 Card, with money loaded onto it (go here to make a deposit to your Cal 1 Card account). This is not the same as meal plan points! Your Cal 1 Card debit account is a separate fund on your card.
A USB drive (you cannot email a scanned document from a bookscan station; you must save your document to a USB drive)
Scanning and saving to a USB drive is 5 cents a page for students.
Scanning documents and sending them to the printer is 10 cents a page for students. Color printing is 60 cents a page.

In order to send documents to the printer from any of the public computers in the libraries, you must have the following:

A Cal 1 Card, with money loaded onto it (see above)
A document that's on the Web or attached to your email (the public computers in the libraries will not open files from a USB or other drive)
Printing is 10 cents a page for students (black and white). Color printing is 60 cents a page.

Have more questions? There's more info here.

Staying Informed

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:51:57 -0700

The UC Berkeley History Collection News blog will keep you informed of new digital collections, trials of resources, workshops, events related to History collections, and other news of interest to researchers in History. Options for accessing the blog include:

Visiting the blog (I post a few times a week)
Subscribing to the RSS feed for the blog
Following me on Twitter at @ucbhistorylib where I tweet links to the blog posts

Campus Library Map

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:42:45 -0800

Click on the image below to see a larger interactive version of the campus library map.

You can also view/download a PDF map of library locations. For library contact information and building addresses, visit our directory.

Searching Library Catalogs

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:46:44 -0700

Use OskiCat to locate materials related to your topic, including books, government publications, and audio and video recordings, in the libraries of UC Berkeley. OskiCat will show you the location and availability of the items that we own.

Using OskiCat (but not Melvyl) you can also renew your books online, look up course reserve materials by course number or instructor name, and place holds on items that other library users have already checked out.

Use Melvyl to locate materials related to your topic located at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide. You can use the Request button to request an item from another library, if we don't own it.

Using Melvyl (but not OskiCat) you can find articles as well as books, easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography, and see images of book covers, when available. Melvyl will also show you the location and availablity of items that we own.

Melvyl has changed as of January 2012, and now includes many more articles. Detailed Melvyl help.

Searching OskiCat for Primary Sources

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:40:16 -0700

Certain words and phrases (part of the Library of Congress Subject Headings classification system) will find primary sources in library catalogs. You can use these in OskiCat or Melvyl:

-correspondence
-sources
-diaries
-personal narratives
-interviews
-speeches
-documents
-archives
-early works to 1800
-newspapers

Examples:

history victorian britain sources
women 19th century personal narratives

OskiCat Searching Tips

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:08:24 -0700

Search for author's name using the author search: Auster, Paul
Search for topics using a keyword search: labyrinth and borges
Use an asterisk as a wildcard: author* finds authority, authorship, etc.
Limit results by language (Modify search)
You can browse topics using the Subject links. To find secondary literature on a particular author, look for "criticism and interpretation" subject links such as these:
- Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.

U.S. History Microfilm Collections

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:29:45 -0700

Abolition and Emancipation. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew Publications, 1996.
MICROFILM 77764
Guide: MICROFILM 77764.guide: Part 1: Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library; Part 4: The Granville Sharp Papers from Gloucestershire Record Office.
Advice Literature in America. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew Publications, 2001.
MICROFILM 78513
Guide: MICROFILM 78513.guide: Part I: The Schlesinger Collection of Etiquette and Advice Books;
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
America, 1935-1946: The photographs of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Security Administration, and the U.S. Office of War Information.
Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey ; Teaneck, N.J: Somerset House, 1980.
MICROFICHE 28570
Guide: MICROFICHE 28570.guide

American Immigrant Autobiographies: Manuscript Autobiographies from the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. Frederick, MD: UPA, c1989.
MICROFILM 71258
Guide: MICROFILM 71258 guide

American Women's Diaries: Southern Women 19th Century .
New Canaan, CT : Readex, [1988-1990].
MICROFILM.77628
Guide: MICROFILM.77628.guide

American Women's Diaries: Western Women. New Canaan, CT: Readex, [1991].
BANC FILM 1976
Guide: BANC FILM 707: 500 published and unpublished works by and about women in the Western United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, including diaries, autobiographies, biographies, personal histories, transcripts of oral interviews, and pioneer histories.
Anti-Slavery Collection, 18th-19th Centuries: From the Society of Friends.
London : World Microfilms, c1978.
MICROFILM 78507
Guide: MICROFILM 78507.guide

Archives of the Settlement Movement. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1989-1990.
MICROFILM.78000
Guide: MICROFILM.78000.guide: Parts I-IV
Audience Research Reports, 1940-1953. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., c1979.
MICROFILM.77736: Audience Research Inc., a Gallup Poll affiliate directed by David Ogilvy, was commissioned by David O. Selznick and other Hollywood producers to furnish data that would objectively record what the public wanted to see in the movies.
Bayard Rustin Papers. Frederick, MD: UPA, c1988.
MICROFILM.77707
Guide: MICROFILM.77707.guide: The collection reproduces the complete holdings of Bayard Rustin's personal papers on deposit at the A. Philip Randolph Institute.
Bush-Conant file relating to the development of the atomic bomb, 1940-1945. Washington: [National Archives and Records Administration], [1990?].
MICROFILM 78655
Guide: MICROFILM 78655.guide

Butler Plantation Papers, 1744-1822. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1996.
MICROFILM 77814
Guide: MICROFILM 77814.guide: The papers of Pierce Butler and successors, from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
China Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, [1996].
MICROFILM.77751
Guide on reel 1: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part I-III
Harrison Bundy files. Washington: The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1980.
MICROFILM 78656

History of Science, Health, and Women. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source, [2000].
MICROFILM 78378
Guide: MICROFILM 78378.guide: From the Smith Collection at Smith College, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and other collections. Monographs and primary sources devoted to the history of women involved in medicine and science.
Immigrant in America. Woodbridge. CT: Research Publications, 1983-1988.
MICROFILM 78024
Guide: MICROFILM 78024.guide: The collection is based on the holdings of The New York Public Library, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, and The Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
Japan Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1853-1941. Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 2000.
MICROFILM 77770
Guide: MICROFILM 77770.guide: Part I: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part 2: William Elliot Griffis Collection, from the Rutgers University Library, Journals and Essays.
Japanese Relocation Camp & Assembly Center Newspapers. Wilmington, Del.: Distributed by Scholarly Resources Inc., [19--?].
MICROFILM.77649
Guide: MICROFILM.77649.guide

Manhattan engineer district history correspondence "top secret" of the Manhattan engineer district, 1942-1946. Washington: National Archives, 1980.
MICROFILM 78654

Margaret Sanger Papers: The Smith Collection. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1994.
MICROFILM.77685
Guide MICROFILM.77685.guide

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1928-1948. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1995.
MICROFILM.77708
Guide MICROFILM.77708 .guide

Native Americans and the New Deal: The Office Files of John Collier 1933-1945. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1993.
MICROFILM.71259
Guide MICROFILM 71259.guide

Native Americans Reference Collection: Documents Collected by the Office of Indian Affairs. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1991.
MICROFILM.71275
Guide: MICROFILM.71275.guide: Part I- 1840-1900
Part II- 1901-1940
Papers of the NAACP. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America, [c1982].
MICROFILM.71198
Guide: MICROFILM.71198.guide

Papers of A. Philip Randolph. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1990.
MICROFILM.77712
Guide: MICROFILM.77712.guide: From the holdings of the Library of Congress.
Papers of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly
Resources, 1981.
MICROFILM.77734
Guide. MICROFILM.77734 guide

Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Central Classified files, 1907-1939. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1995.
MICROFILM 78658: Series C Part 1 and 2.
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1992.
MICROFILM.71194
Guide: MICROFILM.71194.guide: Research collections in American immigration.
Series A: Subject Correspondence Files
Part I: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913.
Supplement to Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898-1941.
Part II: Mexican Immigration 1906-1930.
Part III: Ellis Island, 1900-1933.
Part IV: European Investigations, 1898-1936.
Part V: Prostitution & "White Slavery," 1902-1933.
Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1993-c1994.
MICROFILM.71276
Guide: MICROFILM.71276. guide: Part I: Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President's office correspondence.
Part II: President's Office Files 1958-1968
Records of the National Negro Business League. Bethesda, MD: UPA, c1994.
MICROFILM.77713
MICROFILM.77713.guide: Part I: From the Archives of Tuskegee University collection: Annual Conference Proceedings and Organizational Records 1900-1919.
Part II: From the Papers of Booker T. Washington papers at Library of Congress Correspondence and business records 1900-23.
Slavery and Abolition Collections, 1700-1890. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, [1971?].
MICROFILM.77735: From the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries. Bethesda, MD: UPA, 1991-c1993.
MICROFILM.71277
Guide: MICROFILM.71277. guide: Series B: Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Slavery, Source Materials & Critical Literature. Louisville, [Ky.] : Lost Cause Press, 1971.
MICROFICHE 27132
Guide: MICROFICHE 27132.guide: The collection includes titles from A Bibliography of Anti- Slavery Literature in America, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, and the holdings of the Library of Congress.
Social and Cultural Construction of Girls. Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Gale [2000].
MICROFILM 78379
Guide: MICROFILM 78379 guide: From the Smith Collection at Smith College, the Schleinger Library at Radcliff College and other collections.
Stetson Kennedy Collection, 1916-1950. Schomburg Center collections.
MICROFILM.77737
Guide MICROFILM.77737.guide: From the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Ku Klux Klan Research File & General Research File
U.S. Hispanic Heritage: newspapers, literature, personal papers, correspondence. Leiden, The Netherlands: IDC Publishers, [1999].
MICROFILM 78404
Guide: MICROFILM 78404.guide

Voices from Ellis Island. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, c1987.
MICROFICHE.24312
Guide: MICROFICHE.24312 guide: An Oral History of American Immigration: A Project of the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation, 1988.
Women's Periodicals; 18th Century to the Great Depression. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1991-1992.
MICROFILM.77997
Guide MICROFILM.77997.guide: Over 350 periodicals from US and European libraries. Among the journals included are The Birth Control Review, Independent Suffragette, The Mother's Companion, Temperance Education Quarterly, and The War Worker.

Microfilm & Microfiche

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:30:10 -0700

Before digital storage became easy and cheap, microfilm was a way for libraries to maintain large collections of newspapers, government documents, and historical documents while saving physical storage space. The UC Berkeley Libraries still have extensive microform (microfilm and microfiche) collections, containing valuable information for researchers.

Since each roll of microfilm contains thousands of tiny images of the original pages of a document, you'll need a microfilm reader to magnify the images enough to read them. The UC Berkeley Newspapers and Microforms Department (40 Doe Library) has machines that read, print, and scan images from microfilm and microfiche.

Microfilm and microfiche owned by the UC Berkeley Libraries can be found through OskiCat; use Advanced Keyword Search to limit your search to "All Microforms." In the News/Micro collection, microfilm rolls and microfiche cards are shelved with their own numbering system; click here for a PDF of the collection's floorplan.

The Bancroft Library

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:21:25 -0700

The Bancroft Library is one of the treasures of the campus, and one of the world's great libraries for the history of theAmerican West.

Some Bancroft materials are available online via Calisphere, which includes primary sources from many California libraries and museums.

Before you go:

1. Be prepared! Read secondary sources and know something about your topic.

2. Search OskiCat so you can bring call numbers with you. Use the Entire Collection pull-down menu in OskiCat to limit your search to the Bancroft Library only. (Remember that there are primary sources in many other campus libraries as well.)

If the item you want is in storage (the location is NRLF) and it's owned by The Bancroft Library, do not use the Request button in OskiCat. Instead, use the Bancroft's online request form at least 72 hours in advance (they prefer a week.)
If you have 72 hours in advance, you can also use the online request form for Bancroft materials that are not in storage; that will speed things up when you arrive.
If the OskiCat record mentions a finding aid (an index) to a manuscript collection, you should use it to help you find what you need in the collection. If the finding aid is online, there will be a link from the OskiCat record. The finding aids that are not online are near the Registration Desk at the Bancroft Library.

3. Learn about the Bancroft's policies: read about Access (bring a quarter for lockers) and Registration (bring two pieces of ID). You may want to read about the new camera policy ($10/day, no flash) or about getting photocopies.

During your visit:

Store your belongings in the lockers provided, located on the right-hand side of the east entrance. Pass the security guard station and proceed up one level by stairs or elevator to the Reading Room and Seminar Rooms (3rd floor).
Check in at the Registration Desk, located on the left-hand side of the entrance to the Reference Center.
Go to the Circulation Desk, where you will fill out a form for the items you need. The items will be paged and brought to you. (Remember to bring call numbers, titles, etc. with you!)
For research-related questions, ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

How to Get to the Bancroft Library

The Bancroft is open from 10am to 5pm Monday-Friday (closed on weekends and holidays; shorter hours during Intersession). Paging ends 30 minutes before closing; this means that if you want to use Bancroft materials until 5pm, you need to arrive and request your materials at the circulation desk before 4:30pm.

The Bancroft Library is on the second floor of Doe, on the east side (the side closest to the Campanile). See a floor plan of Doe Library 2nd floor (pdf).

Primary Sources - U.S.

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:28:15 -0700

This is a small sampling of digital collections available from the Library. For a complete list, go to Archival Collections and Primary Source Databases.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:48:53 -0800

Want to find scanned articles from major U.S. newspapers, going back to the mid-19th century? You can do this through an easy-to-use online database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers. This database includes articles from the Chicago Defender (1905-1975), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1987), Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), the New York Times (1851-2007), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), and the Washington Post (1877-1994).

Trying to use Historical Newspapers from off-campus? Be sure to set up off-campus access. Use of this resource is restricted to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.

Where's the PDF?

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:49:03 -0700

Many article databases contain information about articles (citations or abstracts), not the entire text of the article. Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use this button: in order to locate and read the full text of the article. The UC-eLinks button appears in nearly all the databases available from the UCB Library website.

UC-eLinks will link you to the online full text of an article if UCB has paid for online access; otherwise, UC-eLinks will help you locate a print copy on the shelf in the library. If UCB doesn't own the article in print or online format, UC-eLinks can also help you order a copy from another library.

For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 4 min.)

You can also set up UC-eLinks to work with Google Scholar. For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 2 min.)

America History & Life

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:10:10 -0700

Enter terms related to your topic in the search boxes. If you want to specify where in the record your term(s) should be searched, you can select a search field from the optional Select a Field drop-down list. Select a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) to combine search boxes. AND is the default.
Boolean/Phrase searching is the default type of search and is recommended.
Choosing the option “linked full text” will only retrieve results that include links to the full text that reside within this database. This is NOT RECOMMENDED, since it doesn’t include the links to full text we provide through UC e-Links and will greatly limit the number of results you retrieve.
Some scholarly materials are not peer reviewed so unless you are limiting your search to articles, you might avoid checking this box.
This database lists content published since 1964, but you are able to limit your results to works published during certain years.
A unique feature of this database is that it also allows you to limit your search results to works about a particular period of time.
In addition to articles published in journals, the database includes listings for books, conference papers, disserations, and other scholarly materials.
You also have the ability to limit your search to a particular type of work, such as book reviews or dissertations.
Much of the content in the database is from English-language publications, but other languages are represented. The language limiter allows you to limit your results to just the languages you can read.

Search tips:

When accommodating variations in spelling, you can use wildcard characters represented by question mark ? or a pound sign #.

Use ? to replace a single character. Example: ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next.

Use # when an alternate spelling may contain an extra character. Example: colo#r to find all citations containing color or colour.

Use the truncation symbol * (asterisk) to look for variant endings of a word. Example: comput* to find the words computer or computing.

Use “quotation marks” to search for an exact phrase.

You can also view a tutorial on Advanced Search in America: History and Life.

General Article Databases

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:17:25 -0700

Now that you know the types of articles you need, you can choose a database, also known as a periodical index, to find them. Databases are collections of thousands of articles organized by subject. The Libraries have hundreds of databases covering every academic discipline. Some are multi-disciplinary, covering a broad range of subjects and including popular and scholarly sources, and others are subject-specific, and include scholarly and specialized articles. A complete list is available at Find Articles.

The following multi-disciplinary databases are good places to start your research:

Research Advisory Service

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:21:53 -0700

Research Advisory Service for Cal Undergraduates

Book a 30-minute appointment with a librarian who will help refine and focus research inquiries, identify useful online and print sources, and develop search strategies for humanities and social sciences topics (examples of research topics).

This service is for Cal undergraduates only. Graduate students and faculty should contact the library liaison to their department or program for specialized reference consultations.

Scheduling a consultation

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:06:00 -0800

Some reference questions can't be easily answered over e-mail and I am happy to talk with you in person or over the phone if your question is more complex or if you'd like a more in-depth consultation. Trying to schedule appointments via email is time-consuming. Here are some alternatives:

1. Call me at 510-768-7059

2. Use bCal to find my calendar (dorner@berkeley.edu) and locate a free slot between 9-5, Mon-Fri. You can propose an appointment in bCal or contact me by email asking me to reserve that slot for you.

3. If you don't use bCal yet and you have a gmail address, you can send that to me and I'll grant you access to my calendar.